Ep. 192 - A Tale Told By An Idiot, Full Of Sound And Fury, Signifying Nothing
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Summary
Comedian Jamie Kilstein joins The Michael Knowles Show to discuss how he broke his addiction to SJW online slacktivism, and why entitlements are impossible to repeal on this day in history. Plus, the latest on the latest in the Trump/Russia scandal.
Transcript
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Democrat conspiracy theorists come up empty on Russia.
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Democrat superstar and socialist empty head Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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I blame Ali Stuckey. I always blame Ali Stuckey.
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And everything is looking great for Republicans heading into the midterms.
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So the left is resorting to rehashing long-dead history and renaming entire cities
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because leftism is nothing but a tale told by an idiot,
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We will talk about the sound and fury of leftism with comedian Jamie Kilstein
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when he comes on the show to discuss how he broke his addiction to SJW online slacktivism.
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Jamie is a true breath of fresh air in Hollywood, even for a lefty.
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Finally, we will discuss why entitlements are impossible to repeal on this day in history.
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So the media, they're so sad because they were going to get Trump.
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Democrats were going to sail in over all of the crimes,
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the high crimes and misdemeanors that President Trump committed.
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There's criminal liability here for the president on the horizon with these claims.
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Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's attorney, former New York City mayor.
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I've been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime.
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We had Professor Alan Dershowitz come on the show the other day to talk about this.
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And they've been using this vague word, collusion.
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It's a vague scare word to try to make you think that President Trump is like Boris from Rocky and Bullwinkle.
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They said, Manafort's going to get something, isn't he?
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Or, I'm sorry, Mueller is going to get something.
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For instance, with the former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort.
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And we know what the trial is going to be about.
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We know this is about Paul Manafort had set up shell companies.
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We know that he accepted a lot of Ukrainian money.
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We know that he laundered a little bit of money.
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What has not been mentioned, what all analysts are saying likely will not be mentioned in that Manafort
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trial is the 2016 election, President Trump, or really Russia at all.
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So the big get, the big scalp that special counsel Robert Mueller has so far
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doesn't seem to have anything to do with what Mueller was appointed to investigate.
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He said, President Trump could have called up Vladimir Putin, said,
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hey, Vladdy, I got some favors for you if you can release those emails if you've got them.
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And I take a CNN screenshot almost every day because they get more and more ridiculous.
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The headline was, Trump opens window into his rage with Mueller attack.
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That was on Apple News, like the main thing when I woke up this morning.
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And I think they might be projecting a little bit.
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I think CNN is opening a window into its own rage because they can't get anything on Trump.
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So they say, whenever you read that Trump opens the window into his rage,
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is that like poetry or is that, you know, the beginning to a novel or is that the news?
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They were really hoping, okay, we can't get anything with President Trump.
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We don't have any crimes that he committed with Russia.
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So we're going to run our superstar, energetic candidate, the far left,
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running on the Democrat wing of the Democrat Party.
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She's going to sail us to victory, except she doesn't know anything.
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But one of the things that we saw is if people pay their fair share,
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if corporations and the ultra-wealthy, for example, as Warren Buffett likes to say,
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if he paid as much as his secretary paid, 15%, if he paid a 15% tax rate.
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Warren Buffett pays millions and millions and millions of dollars in taxes.
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His secretary pays presumably, I don't know, tens of thousands of dollars in taxes, if that.
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But also, she said, you know, that we've got to get him to pay 15%.
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Now, she actually messes up the Democrat talking point on this.
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The Democrat talking point is that the zillionaires are only paying 15%.
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So she doesn't even get the talking point right.
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Warren Buffett's effective tax rate is around 31%.
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His secretary's effective tax rate is around 21%.
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And when you're talking about 31% of the millions and millions of dollars Warren Buffett makes every year,
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that's a lot more money than the 21% of the, who knows, $100,000 that his secretary makes.
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Part of the reason that they get away with this talking point is they ignore that,
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first of all, Warren Buffett makes most of his money on capital gains, right?
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But that money's already been taxed at the corporate level.
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That money has been taxed in many places before you get to that number.
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Let's bring on some more untruths from Ms. Ocasio-Cortez.
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If corporations paid, if we reversed the tax bill but raised our corporate tax rate to 28%,
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If we do those two things and also close some of those loopholes, that's $2 trillion right there.
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And it's one of the wide estimates is that it's going to take $3 to $4 trillion to transition us to 100% renewable energy economy.
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So we got $2 trillion from folks paying their fair share, which they were not paying before the Trump tax bill.
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They weren't paying that before the Trump tax bill.
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If we get people to pay their fair share, that's $2 trillion in 10 years.
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Now, if we implement a carbon tax on top of that so that we can transition and financially incentivize people away from fossil fuels.
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If we implement a carbon tax, that's an additional amount of a large amount of revenue that we can have.
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And then the last key, which is extremely, extremely important, is reprioritization.
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Just last year, we gave the military a $700 billion budget increase, which they didn't even ask for.
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They're like, we don't want another fighter jet.
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They're like, don't give us another nuclear bomb.
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They didn't even ask for it, and we gave it to them.
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They say the conservative made her look stupid.
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She's on the left-wing program with Trevor Noah.
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And she goes and she says things that aren't true.
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She says them in a way that is not very flattering.
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So my advice, having been in politics for a little bit at least, is Miss Ocasio-Cortez,
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you should lock yourself in a closet until election day.
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The election is yours, and you're only hurting yourself.
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But then my selfish advice is keep going on the shows.
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You should become the mascot of the Democrat Party.
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So she said that there was a $700 billion increase in the Pentagon budget last year.
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$700 billion is the total size of the Pentagon budget.
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So the entire budget with that increase is $700 billion.
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When you figure that the government's first duty is to protect us, 16% or 17% isn't a whole lot.
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Also, the Pentagon did ask for that budget increase.
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Also notice in that clip when she's talking about the way she's going to pay for these programs of hers, she gets so excited.
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Oh, and we've got some more taxes that we can, taxes.
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This should not be surprising because she's, every time she goes on TV, she seems to say something that isn't true.
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But she certainly, she makes it very clear in this particular instance.
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She says, when Trevor Noah asks her, how are you going to pay for this?
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She says, well, if we raise this tax and that tax and this tax, we can raise $2 trillion in revenue over 10 years.
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This is important because when people hear trillion, billion, 10 years, that,
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people lose sight of the scales of money that we're talking about, the orders of magnitude difference that we're talking about.
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And Ms. Ocasio-Cortez appears not to be so swift in math either.
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$2 trillion in 10 years is $200 billion a year.
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Socialized medicine, socialist health care, everybody is going to be covered by a Medicare-like program.
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The Mercatus Center at George Mason University estimates the cost of this would be $32.6 trillion over the course of 10 years.
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The amount of money that Ocasio-Cortez says that she can raise by all of these taxes, and these are her rosy estimates, is $200 billion.
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Where are you going to pay for the other 93% or the 90-plus percent that you need to pay for?
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To put this in perspective, by the way, Medicare for all will cost, according to this study from George Mason, $3.3 trillion per year.
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Last year, the entire tax receipts paid by American citizens to the federal government was $3.3 trillion.
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You would have to double the taxes on Americans, double them, not increase by 5%, not increase by 20%.
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Double the taxes paid to the federal government to pay for Medicare for all.
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It doesn't seem like an easy argument for Democrats to make.
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We know now that we have 4.1 GDP, 4.1% GDP growth in the last quarter.
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However, the Obama economists told us this was impossible.
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Black unemployment in particular is at record lows, which means that the Democrats can't even race hustle going into the election.
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I don't use that phrase a lot because all crime is hate crime.
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But even that, even racially motivated or whatever, all of that is down.
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There's a religious liberty task force that is being instituted by the Department of Justice.
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But the trouble is that black people and Hispanic people and mixed race Americans are more likely to be religious than white Americans.
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And President Trump's approval rating has just ticked up to 47%.
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It's ticked up higher than it was previously at 45%.
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The way that Democrats are going to try to win this election is by doubling down, rehashing history, spinning false narratives, and getting into the politics of personal destruction.
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I mean, they're going to great lengths to do this.
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Before we do that, I want to thank on a very courageous man, courageous for a number of reasons.
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But one, because he's one of the few Democrats who's actually agreed to come on my show, Jamie Kilstein.
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And Tom Arnold is sort of in a class of his own.
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Well, we purposely kept me out of here for the headlines just so we could actually do the interview.
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And I wasn't like, hey, I have a list of grievances with you.
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I mean, part of it is like, even when I came here.
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So when I came here, this is the first, like I've done Rogan's show who has had people from both sides of the aisle on.
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But this is definitely the first like conservative show.
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And even, I was going to say, even when I said conservative, I had to put it in quotes because I'm so not used to saying that word.
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And, hey, everyone here has been lovely and really nice.
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And I don't know what I expected, especially like being in Los Angeles.
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Just like Nazi gremlins coming out of the wall.
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I saw it on my way over here in a back alley, in a back alley where other people are getting the legal abortions.
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I was shocked by when we were talking before the show and you were like, yeah, man, I really like Norm MacDonald.
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And I heard, I thought you just laughed at like, like Mexican children in cages.
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And I, Jordan Peterson, when he was on Rogan, I think, no, no, no.
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And he was like, yeah, I really like a comedian Mitch Hedberg.
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And ever since I kind of stepped away from being political, what I've tried to do is just be like, how do I be a better person?
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And I started listening to not even political voices, really, but I started listening to like Tim Ferriss's show or Rogan's more or Jocko Wilnick.
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And I realized that back in the day, and I'm not, I didn't hang out with like moderate liberals.
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It was like, yeah, like if you told someone you were depressed, they were like, that's a microaggression towards me.
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And you're like, cool, I don't know what to do anymore.
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And I just want to live in like my like bubble.
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I mean, you, because you, we're joking about this.
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This bubble is how, because I think conservatives are shocked by this.
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It really just because conservatives usually don't have the opportunity to be in a bubble in so much as the culture is kind of a left wing culture.
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So when you're in, so you kind of hear the left wing point of view, especially, you know, I lived in New York, L.A., Haven, right?
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I mean, I always disagreed with that because like right now it's like, well, the government is being run by conservatives, right?
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And, and, but, but you're right when it comes to narratives, when it comes to loud voices, especially on social media, that's kind of like our turf.
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And if I were to, you know, listening to all these shows, like becoming friends with you, you know, and, and hearing other people's points of views, especially like, here's what I learned from Jocko.
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Nothing about the military, just about how like discipline's good.
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And I thought sort of like discipline was like some like evil right wing word.
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Responsibility, like me, like taking responsibility or like the words like honor or family.
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It's weird that even those, those words would, should be very positive things have been sort of turned into conservative talking points.
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And so when I started listening to these people who were kind of demonized by my tribe, I was like, well, they say a lot of stuff I really like and I agree with.
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Like when I first heard him, I literally thought I was going to be listening to like Nazi propaganda.
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But he was like, walk with your shoulders back and have confidence and clean up your room.
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Like there are a lot of young men who need to hear that.
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And even me right now saying young men, well, I shouldn't be talking about young men because there are also like Mexican transgender people that I should be talking about.
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And I think that we should be talking about like all people and how to be better towards all people.
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But what I'm starting to learn by talking to more conservatives or libertarians is we still want people to be happy and healthy and safe.
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And if we don't talk about why we disagree on the policy, we're never going to actually get to solutions.
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How widespread is it, do you think, on the left that they legitimately think right-wingers are Nazis or hateful or...
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And you said, I'm breaking my SJW Twitter addiction.
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I said this on Rogan's, but one of my sort of like tipping points was my old show, which was very, very progressive.
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Not kid, a man right in who was like, I went to the doctor and I was essentially going to die.
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He told me I was going to die and I have children and I have to do something with my health.
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I found him a gym in, I think it was like Baltimore.
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And I wrote him out like this whole like diet thing or like here's what you should stop eating.
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And, you know, heard back from him maybe like eight months, ten months later.
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Writes into the show and is literally like, my life has changed.
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I entered my first like white belt jujitsu tournament.
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You know, I do Krav Maga or jujitsu as I call it.
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It's the similar, different emphasis, you know.
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So he does this because of you, totally changes his life.
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And, you know, I had a really hard childhood and a struggle like making a name for myself
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And I'm like choking back tears because I'm like, man, all the garbage I went through is worth it.
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We can read bad news every day from the news or read Twitter or talk about who we're mad at.
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But like this was one of the first times I felt like I actually did something
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and wasn't just shouting into an echo chamber, right?
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So the next day, we get like 10 emails saying that by reading his email,
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And I have never been more livid in my life because we weren't like, so everyone who
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doesn't do jujitsu is a fatty and doesn't deserve health care.
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We were like, here is a very inspirational story about something very specific that this
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one individual decided to do and now he's not going to die.
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And what I hate about, I guess this is the first time I've publicly said victim culture.
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What I hate about it is it's like you would rather other people die than take personal
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Now, what I always say with fat shaming is like, no, you should never make someone feel
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There are some bigger people who are actually healthier.
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Like I have horrible friends who like, like all my like hot friends who have weird hot person
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metabolism, who can just eat garbage and like, no, I have a bagel and I like put on five
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I gave all those prefaces, all those liberal prefaces.
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And I was like, man, when you would rather somebody, and that's the problem is.
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It is exhausting to keep up with whatever the obsession to sure is.
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And I find the minute I, cause you know, on the rare occasion when I used to work in Hollywood,
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I keep my mouth shut about politics and you'd have to be very careful.
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It's so liberating to say, look, I'm having a conversation in good faith.
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I'm not going to be careful and choose my words to the nth degree.
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But it seems to me the left on Twitter, especially, but in that social media, angry mindset, everything
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Well, and because you, you're not looking at people face to face and you're not looking
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at them in the eyes and you're not meeting their family and you're not, I mean, I remember
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my grandparents had pictures of them with George Bush, with Pat Robertson.
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And when I was like, Jamie, where did you go wrong?
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At my angstiest, I went to stay with them because they were going to put me up.
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Cause of course I was like living out of my car.
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I was a liberal stereotype too, now that I say this out loud.
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And they had like, there's like gorgeous house outside of Seattle.
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But I walked in and I was ready to like throw down with them.
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And I so disagree with you on a, on a lot of things, but the more tribalized we get
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and like, dude, I had a blast talking to you before the show.
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Like I haven't had that much fun talking to someone in like a while.
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But then when, when I, and I also realized, by the way, when I started just hanging out
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with like jujitsu guys, instead of just liberal progressives, I'm like, oh, this is actually
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the first time I've been around minorities in a really long time for as much as we talk
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about like being like woke and being like intersectional or whatever.
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But all of my friends in college who were like the college Democrats, the woke activists,
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it was all, it was all white kids of hedge fund managers and all, they were all there,
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You know, guys, you're yelling at me about racial diversity.
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I, I don't see a whole lot of racial diversity going on.
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And they're like, hold on, I have to go back to my, my grandparents' house and get more
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But I, what I realized was that talking to people I disagree with, I still can get along
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And when you look at, for your audience, when you look at like, when you're having a real
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conversation with like one of your liberal friends and you're not just saying, if you voted
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Or when I'm having a conversation with you or with libertarians or people who don't vote
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or whatever, you realize that like, and this sounds super like, like stoner, I just saw
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But I stand by it, which is you realize that like, we all are hopefully trying to be better
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I think ideology is an excuse not to be a better person.
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And this began, again, because I'm not like a real kumbaya, it's all, it's everybody's
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Because in the 1960s, the left said, the personal is the political.
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And so every aspect of life became this political moment.
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And the thing I try to do in my own life, because there is an ideological version of
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conservatism, which I try to eschew, I try not to do it, because when you're in that
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fight, I know this working on campaigns, you're in that fight, you just want the lower taxes
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You just want, I'm going to, once we lower taxes, then everything's going to be great.
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And you'll do it and you're in the fight and then you lower the taxes.
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You know, if you're on the left, you say this, we've got to pass this new speech code.
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And once we do that, but life is, of course, much more than those things.
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And once you do it, you've got to look at yourself in the mirror and say, well, what
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That was the thing where I was the most depressed.
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I mean, dude, there were times where my mom would call me and I'm like, oh, I can't take
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And I'm like, yeah, but I don't get famous people retweeting me.
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And like, yeah, talking about my mom is like a very lame virtue signaling.
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And but I I want to I kind of stop talking about politics and like, look, we do have I
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really strongly believe that we do have institutional problems in this country.
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But I also believe that we can we some we will use that as an excuse to, yeah, not take care
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And because, again, personal responsibility is a very Republican word.
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I think that you wouldn't be able to get something like that.
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And the problem is when I stopped, when I got off Twitter and maybe it has less to do
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I mean, because I do think that social media was important because a bunch of people who
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felt marginalized, whether it be trans people, whether it be people of color, they found
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Because they they were, you know, you barely saw transgender activists like on the news,
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And now suddenly you have a voice after being marginalized for so long that you're going
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And the problem is when so for me and I can just speak for me and I am a very white, straight
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I was very depressed when I lived in New York and I didn't have I was in a rough relationship
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and I didn't really like get along with my friends and I was struggling with comedy.
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And so I would wake up every day and I would open Twitter and I would be like, who are
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And I would see who's trending and I'd be like, OK, so it's this like conservative writer
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or it's this moderate Democrat writer who's not being left enough.
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I don't have time to read the articles because I slept till 11 because I'm depressed.
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You read the articles and you go, oh, I don't get it.
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And I read the headline and I'm like, all right, I got to formulate a joke off the headline
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because like time's ticking and we're going to move on to the next person.
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So then you come up with a line and you at this person you don't even know.
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I mean, geez, I still have a screenshot of like Josh Marshall from Talking Points Memo
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writing FU Freedom Fighter to me because I was harassing him while he was at the beach with
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He should have been in the ocean with his kids.
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I should have been outside instead of like angrily on Twitter, not talking to my wife,
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not talking to my family, ignoring my poor mom.
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And yeah, and what happens is you do that to feel like a good person because you're like,
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But in reality, even when I wrote something that I believe in, if I tweeted Black Lives
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They're saying like, treat us like people, right?
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And, but I would tweet it and then I would just refresh it to see who liked it and see
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And I was doing that instead of learning how to be a better person, instead of volunteering
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my time with like an actual charity that would do something.
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Instead of teaching more people jujitsu would save this kid's life.
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But I don't want to fat shame them by like teaching them jujitsu.
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Well, you've got to teach the lefties how to laugh though.
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If you do that, that would be another thing that would change their lives.
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This brings me to my, because then I'll let you go.
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Are, are you ever going to work in this town again?
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I mean, because you're, it's not like you're a conservative.
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What I forgot about comedy is that the majority of comedy is, a lot of it is, and this is
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Which is, a lot of comedy is, and why I love comics is they are so open and they're so honest
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about their screw-ups, their, their messed up thoughts and their vulnerabilities.
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And my old crew didn't, is crew a cultural appropriation?
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Yeah, that's, we're appropriating Harvard culture.
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My old group of friends, um, weren't like that because we were so busy shouting at other
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people that, um, a lot of us wouldn't, um, me, I can just say me, um, wouldn't talk about
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And what I loved about spending this year hanging out with athletes is athletes are constantly
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trying to, um, improve and they are using, uh, discipline and they're reading biographies
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about like great leaders and like the men aren't afraid to say that like, yeah, being a
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man is good and that doesn't mean that you have to be oppressing, that means that like
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you want to like take care of like your family and like you want to like be strong and like
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And those are qualities that women can have too, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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I'm so used to having to give a million prefaces before.
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Yeah, you don't need, you, you don't need the prefaces here.
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Uh, I'm so afraid to have a kid because I think his first words are literally just going
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But I honestly think that like, if you just, if you spend your life figuring out how you
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can be a good person and if you take care of yourself first, um, which I always thought
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was selfish, you are going to be in a much better place to take care of other people
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And I think people need to think about how much time are you spending on Twitter attacking
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people instead of making stuff, instead of helping people, instead of having like looking
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like the person bringing up your groceries in the eye instead of just being like, I'm tweeting
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You're ignoring the person who's in front of you right now.
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Speaking of Norm Macdonald, he had one of the greatest observations I've ever seen on
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I've now realized that Twitter is an excellent place to tell people that you don't like them
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And now you're outside of it in the real world.
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So if they do blacklist me, everybody, you can support my show.
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Uh, I have a podcast where I talk about a lot of this stuff.
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We forgot to tell Tom Arnold that and then we had to bleep the entire show.
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And then I'm at Jamie Kilstein on, uh, Twitter.
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That's where you go and tweet mean things to Jamie.
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I didn't give my Instagram because people aren't mean on Instagram because it's just
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My Instagram, which is my, my special place, is, uh, Jamie Kilstein podcast.
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All right, we got a second bite of Facebook and YouTube.
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If you're on Facebook and YouTube, go to Daily Wire and give us your money because we need
00:34:27.900
your money to keep the lights on and covfefe in my cup.
00:34:30.680
Also, because Jamie is known for stealing mugs off of television sets, so I know he's going
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I mean, these days, you're really going to need it.
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You've got Ocasio-Cortez going on the Daily Show.
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You've got Paul Manafort going to jail for, I don't know, for jaywalking in 1971.
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There are a lot of things that are upsetting the left these days.
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Go make sure you get this because otherwise you'll drown in the Leftist Tears.
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Uh, and by the way, you'll, you'll need this because I'm headed to DC.
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We're going to flood the whole, the whole District of Columbia.
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I could, I could have kept Jamie on for another two hours.
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Uh, talk about the like walk away moment or the kind of realizing this, this dark culture
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It's really how liberating it is to be done with that.
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So one aspect of this talking, talking about delving into the past, the politics of personal
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destruction, the Democrats have no, uh, nothing to run on in 2018 in the midterm elections.
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They don't have the personal crime stuff about Trump.
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We've got the satellite images corroborating that.
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The IMF is crediting Trump with, uh, boosting the global economy.
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They can't even run on racial division, which they usually try to run on because hate crimes
00:36:16.820
are down, black unemployment is down, joblessness is down.
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Ironically, their own past, because the Democrats are the party of slavery and the Republican
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Party was founded to stop the Democrats from owning slaves.
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So they're delving into the past and they're saying, you know, in the old days, in the olden
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And so we're going to have to rename monuments and rip down monuments and rename streets.
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And now they want to rename an entire city of Austin, Texas.
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What they did is, so Stephen F. Austin, Stephen Austin is the founder of Texas, the father of
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Texas, you know, an important figure to Austin is named after.
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They're very angry because he opposed an attempt by Mexico to outlaw slavery in that territory.
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He said that freeing all the slaves immediately would turn them into vagabonds, a nuisance,
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And so they're now saying we've got to rename Austin and we cannot have this legacy of this
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But the thing with Austin is he wasn't a lifetime slave owner.
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He also believed that slavery was morally wrong.
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He also believed that slavery was contrary to the American founding ideals, that it was
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And he predicted that slavery would cause destruction and ruin for the United States in the long
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His position wasn't very different than Thomas Jefferson or other founding fathers.
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Obviously, it caused a lot of destruction during the Civil War, 600,000 Americans dying.
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But in this long run, it's caused this destruction because it's such an easy target for cynical
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This proposal to rename the city of Austin comes from the city of Austin's equity office.
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And they say, we've got to topple the monuments.
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We've got to rename seven streets because the streets have names like Plantation Road.
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One of them was named Barton Springs, this area, Barton Springs.
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And that was after William Barton, who owned slaves.
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The office of inclusion and diversity and renaming things.
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The office of this, the office of that, of tolerance and tolerance and whatever.
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Their whole job is to cause trouble, to reopen historical scabs, to try to rewrite history,
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to try to erase history, to try to create division.
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So we can't really blame them when they do that.
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What we should do, though, is perhaps get rid of those jobs.
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The fact that Yale University became a hotbed of racial division and anti-historical activism.
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Yale University, the best history department in the entire country, has become this place of erasing history.
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That is because those protests were egged on by the deputy assistant, deputy dean of diversity and inclusion and creating political trouble.
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If you're going to erase the name Austin because a guy who fervently believed that slavery was immoral and anti-American also didn't want to abolish slavery immediately,
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if you're going to erase him, you're going to erase everybody.
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You're going to have to rename Washington, D.C.
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What about did he ever say a mean thing to his wife?
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To judge the historical past because they were not perfect people is an incredible thing.
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In the course of justice, none of us would see salvation.
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To quote Portia to Shylock and the Merchant of Venice.
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It's just going to involve you totally eradicating your tradition and see what happens then.
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See what happens then when you're just guided by your ideology because ideologies have taken hold and destroyed tradition a number of times in modern history.
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The French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, Nazi Germany, communist China, on and on.
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Before we go, I would like to direct your attention too to a New York magazine article on this same topic.
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I can't show the pictures because then they'll get me for copyright.
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The photographer who documents the former sites of Confederate monuments.
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And you can go and look and it's just bases with nothing there.
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Because even if you don't like Jefferson Davis, even if you don't like Robert Lee, you just see this absence, this void.
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And you think, gosh, we're getting rid of our history.
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I also want to point out on this day in history, we're talking about Medicare for All,
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how we're going to spend $75 zillion on new social programs.
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On this day in history, in 1965, LBJ signed Medicare into law.
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So this created a major, major permanent entitlement.
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And this is because in 1945, President Truman became one of the first Americans to propose a national health insurance provision.
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Truman actually became the first beneficiary of Medicare.
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He signed up and he said, okay, I'm the first Medicare enrollee.
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Originally, Medicare was for Americans 65 and older.
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Just a few years later, seven years later, in 1972, that was expanded to include some Americans under the age of 65.
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Then in 2003, under a Republican president, a nominally ostensible conservative president,
00:42:27.900
that was expanded even further to include certain prescription drugs, Medicare Part D.
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This was the conservative running on expanding that entitlement.
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This is funded entirely by the federal government.
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It's paid for in part by payroll taxes, but just in part.
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It's been a huge strain on the federal budget ever since it was passed.
00:42:47.260
Just to put this in perspective, in 2010, the Office of Management and Budget said that out of the $528 billion that was allocated to Medicare,
00:42:58.700
huge amount of money, almost $50 billion of that was fraud.
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That is a program that is so riven with fraud because Medicare, forget the Democrats complain about national defense.
00:43:13.680
Medicare is a big driver of our debt and deficits.
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But when you look at that program, almost 10% of that is fraud.
00:43:22.040
When you're talking about this huge chunk of the federal budget,
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then a huge chunk of that is waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:43:28.700
So, in 2017, Medicare accounted for 15% of the total budget.
00:43:32.660
That's expected to rise to 18% over the next 10 years.
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And it's, to quote Mitch Daniels, the new red menace, this time consisting of ink.
00:43:42.760
Part of what that should show you, though, is that entitlement programs, once they're enacted, are virtually impossible to repeal.
00:43:49.360
Right now, the Republicans control the White House, the House of Representatives, the Senate.
00:43:54.480
The conservatives have the court, broadly speaking.
00:43:57.100
We have so many state houses, but they can't repeal Obamacare.
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But they still haven't succeeded in repealing Obamacare.
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Because even with all of that momentum, it is virtually impossible to repeal entitlements once they're passed.
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And what an entitlement program is, is a diminution of your freedom.
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The bigger the entitlement, the less freedom you have.
00:44:23.820
Because it means the more of your property the government gets to take, the more of your liberty it gets to demand.
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And the bigger the government gets, the smaller the citizen gets.
00:44:32.180
And the government that can give you everything you want is able to take away everything that you have.
00:44:36.460
The government's going to give you all that health care.
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You have to rely on the government for health care.
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Well, guess what happens when your baby gets sick and you say, I want to take it elsewhere for treatment.
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Either there's nowhere else to go or the government can say no.
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As we saw in the United Kingdom happen twice in just the last year, last couple of years.
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Once that entitlement program is enacted, that liberty is gone.
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And so when you've got people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and lefties and socialists, open socialists, saying,
00:45:02.480
we want to enact national health service, we want to, that freedom will be lost permanently.
00:45:15.480
But right now, 42 candidates are running on the left with the official endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America.
00:45:24.460
They know that once they take away your freedom, you're not getting it back.
00:45:29.360
And even wackos, even clowns like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who doesn't know anything,
00:45:35.000
who gesticulates like a crazy person on Trevor Noah's show, they are peddling a really pernicious ideology.
00:45:49.260
So if you're in the D.C. area, maybe I'll see you around there.
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You can catch me at, you know, any cigar bar or the Trump Hotel.
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And because we'll be talking at YAF, at YAF, Young America's Foundation, and there's going to be a really good speech.
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We're going to be talking about owning the libs.
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And I can't wait to offer my robust defense of that.
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